With the passing in the last week or so of Bob Gibson, Whitey Ford, and now Joe Morgan, I got to thinking about players who always seems to be at their best against the Dodgers.
It has always seemed to me like some players just have another team’s number. Take for example, Willie McCovey. His BA against the Dodgers in 297 games was .241. He hit 45 HR’s and had 162 RBI’s. He struck out 212 times. But against a Dodger great, Don Drysdale, he hit .336 with 12 homers over their careers. McCovey was not exactly a Dodger killer, but he inflicted a lot of wounds and owned Drysdale.